does default (recommended) mdk 7 installation support ntfs mounts?
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From: "Colin Brough" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Catherine Wattebot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "David van Balen"
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Cc: "'Newbie Linux'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Mailbase Linux Uk Help'"
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Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 4:03 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] HELP fstab
> > I guess Andrew is asking how to have the windows partition not owned
> > by root and therefor mountable and writeable maybe by an ordinary user.
> >
> > We don't know what version of linux you are using. However, in RedHat5.2
> > for instance you can achieve this by using the option "user" in
/etc/fstab.
> > In later linuces, this becomes "owner" instead, which works in RH6.1.
> > A line like the second line here below will do it (a file called
/etc/fstab2
> > is simply ignored - for a recent linux, use owner instead of user):
> >
> > ....
> > /dev/hda1 /dos msdos defaults,rw,user
0 0
> > ....
> >
> > The directory and its contents are owned by the user who mounts it,
> > and they can write to it provided it is mounted rw, the default.
> > This is the mechanism used for users to mount floppy drives and cdroms
> > and zips too. Beware though - it means *any* user can mount and maybe
> > change or delete your windows partition.
>
> You can be a bit less elegant, but safer, by specifying options more
> closely. On my RedHat 5.2 box, I have the line:
>
> /dev/hda1 /msdos vfat uid=500,gid=500,auto,rw,suid,dev,exec,async
0 0
>
> for my Windows 95 partition. This means that it will be mounted with
> user id 500 (thats me), and group id 500 (again, me), which gets round
> *any* user mounting it and being able to write to it... I can't
> remember the details of the other options - read the manual pages.
>
> Cheers
>
> Colin
>
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